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Parental Qualities Significantly Influence the Civic Competence of Adolescents
The question of parental qualities in family political discussions is the focus of this study: We ask whether youth-parent discussions of current events may be more effective at enhancing youth civic development when parents have higher, versus lower, levels of knowledge about politics and government. The authors assess the interaction of parental characteristics, the frequency of family political discussions, and measures representing civic outcomes in youth (political knowledge, news monitoring, public communication skill, and community service). Four key conclusions emerge from the study.
First, levels of parent political knowledge and youth-parent political discussion predict the level of youth political knowledge. Notably, more frequent youth-parent political discussion is associated with greater increases in youth political knowledge when parents have high political knowledge compared to when parents have low political knowledge. In this case, what parents know about politics is the strongest predictor. The authors observe that a possible interaction between parent political knowledge and family political discussion in predicting youth political knowledge has not been reported before.
Second, in terms of the other three civic outcomes of news monitoring, public communication skill, and community service on the part of youthwhich involve the development of civic behaviors and skillswhat parents do (i.e., discuss politics and current events) with their children is the strongest predictor of outcomes.
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